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So I would like to use a few extra MAC OS machines to be my Virtual Appliance DNS machines for my Cisco Umbrella Cloud.
I am having trouble importing the ova files I downloaded, now I know they were meant for VMware but they cant be used in VirtualBox?
is this a compatibility thing or a normal import error that i can work around?

Please Advise.
Thank You!
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Failed to import appliance /Users/careyjames/Downloads/OpenDNS-VirtualMachine-20171025.ova.

Medium '/Users/careyjames/VirtualBox VMs/Umbrella Virtual Appliance/forwarder-va.vmdk' is already attached to port 0, device 0 of controller 'SCSI' of this virtual machine.

Result Code: VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE (0x80BB000C)
Component: ApplianceWrap
Interface: IAppliance {8398f026-4add-4474-5bc3-2f9f2140b23e}

Medium '/Users/careyjames/VirtualBox VMs/Umbrella Virtual Appliance/forwarder-va.vmdk' is already attached to port 0, device 0 of controller 'SCSI' of this virtual machine.


Result Code:
VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE (0x80BB000C)
Component:
ApplianceWrap
Interface:
IAppliance {8398f026-4add-4474-5bc3-2f9f2140b23e}

According to the installation information on the Cisco Umbrella site: "Umbrella Virtual Appliances, or “VAs”, are very lightweight virtual machines, which are compatible with VMWare ESX/ESXi and Windows Hyper-V hypervisors." which suggests that they aren't compatible with any other Virtualisation software, but you need to ask them for clarification.

yes, they (cisco) said:


bparnell (Umbrella)
Dec 8, 12:40 PST

Hello again,

I reached out and talked with a few of my coworkers on the development side of Umbrella. Apparently we don't have VirtualBox as a supported way of running VMs because it couldn't be made to work no matter what they tried. As such I was told a feature request wouldn't be of use in this case. I apologize for the inconvenience regarding this issue.

its just software really???

a dns server cant run on VirtualBox?

I dont buy it....

MacHelpNashville wrote:we don't have VirtualBox as a supported way of running VMs because it couldn't be made to work no matter what they tried.

MacHelpNashville wrote:a dns server cant run on VirtualBox?

Sure it can. Just not *this* specific Virtual Machine. You're more than welcome to create a VM from scratch. It will run, but it will be a major pain to set up the guest OS and its applications... just right. How much time they spent on it? I don't know. But I suspect it's not the time that they spent on it, it's the support that they have to have.